Hawke's Bay Beach

Hawke's Bay Beach
Hawke's Bay Beach
Beach
	A view over the beach
	Hawke's Bay Beach Hawke's Bay Beach
	Coordinates: 24.860202°N 66.863654°E
Location	Karachi, Pakistan
Offshore water bodies	Beach on Arabian Sea

Hawke's Bay or Hawkesbay is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, located 20 km southwest of Karachi city. The beach is named after Bladen Wilmer Hawke, who owned a house on the beach during the 1930s.^[1]

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The beach is very popular, with hundreds of people visiting daily for swimming, camel and horse riding, and vacations.

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Marine life

This beach is known for being a nesting ground for green sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtle during winter months. Due to this, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) organised a wetland centre on the beach for information regarding turtles.^[2]

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Various accidents have occurred due to lack of proper security and damaged boats used for giving rides to people.

In February 1983, a Shia pilgrim drowned near the beach.
On July 19, 2015, four boys drowned near the beach.^[3]
On September 9, 2017, 12 members of three families drowned near the beach.^[4]
On July 11, 2019, a teenaged boy and a young man drowned while on picnic with their family.^[5]

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Sibtain Naqvi (31 July 2017). "CITIES: A KARACHI BY ANY OTHER NAME". Dawn. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
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"Hawkes Bay Beach in Karachi: A Wonderfully Sunny & Sandy Beach". Group In. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
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"Four drown in Karachi's Hawkes Bay beach". GEO TV News website. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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"12 picknickers drown at Karachi's Hawksbay beach, say police". Dawn newspaper. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
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"Two drown off Hawkesbay". Dawn newspaper. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

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